Friday, April 7

National Security Roid Rage

This is an incident of National Security on steroids

(AP)Palestinian man faces federal charges of threatening President Bush over comments made while getting mental-health care, according to an indictment made public this week

J. Steven Beckett, a University of Illinois law professor, said Nijmeh's statements at the Alton Mental Health Center might be "delirious rantings of a mental patient."

"It's national security gone berserk," Beckett said. He speculated that some details of the case have been kept secret, but added, "My immediate reaction here is, `Who's nuts?'"